Inland Saints: New writers from Schumacher's crime drama

Damian Shannon and Mark Swift have signed on to rewrite Inland Saints, which Joel Schumacher is directing for Paramount Pictures.

Project, formerly called "Fix" and set up at the studio last year based on a pitch by Kurt Sutter, had centered on the leader of a dangerous street gang who meets and falls in love with the daughter of the detective hired to bring down the gang.

Shannon and Swift are taking the project in a new direction. It is now described as an action horror pic set in a small-town desert wasteland gripped by drugs and gangs, with plot details still being hashed out.